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but if there's benign neglect in the second term of the obama administration in my view this will get out of hand. i am concerned about it. i think we're not there yet. but if there's four years of neglect, then each side takes unilateral steps. then we're in a very different place. therefore, that's why it's very important to get these parties to the table right now. >> suarez: quick final comment from ghaith. do palestinians still believe that the two-state solution is on the table? >> absolutely. public opinion over and over again believes that the two-state solution is do-able, is preferrable. they do not believe that it's realized in the foreseeable future. if the public starts losing faith in the viability of the two-state solution it will be abandoned. >> suarez: ghaith and david, good to talk to you both. >> thank you. >> brown: now, how to increase student performance in america's secondary schools. federal education officials announced today that five states will participate in an experiment to make students spend more time in school. meanwhile, many states are already imple
but if there's benign neglect in the second term of the obama administration in my view this will get out of hand. i am concerned about it. i think we're not there yet. but if there's four years of neglect, then each side takes unilateral steps. then we're in a very different place. therefore, that's why it's very important to get these parties to the table right now. >> suarez: quick final comment from ghaith. do palestinians still believe that the two-state solution is on the table?...
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the administration mounted one. she was exposed to the negatives from republicans -- >> oba was forer t the president does not have any friends. the president of the united states does not have the political capital -- >> he should be able to orchestrate support. >> that says something about his weakness. assad, even the russians are bailing on him. >> when the russians are building on you, that is the canary in the coal mine. they have been a tremendous ally for half a century. they have a naval cility in sya, and they will lose if they lose him. the deputy foreign minister said that it is a dark future and their thinking of evaluating russians who live in syria. the thing is that everybody can see that the rebels are gaining and holding their ground. the worst thing i've read is the russians think -- it imports into four countries, because it is so ethnically rifted -- the somalia and the yugoslavia of the middle east, and that would be a catastrophe. >> be careful what you wish for? >> yeah. the group that has be
the administration mounted one. she was exposed to the negatives from republicans -- >> oba was forer t the president does not have any friends. the president of the united states does not have the political capital -- >> he should be able to orchestrate support. >> that says something about his weakness. assad, even the russians are bailing on him. >> when the russians are building on you, that is the canary in the coal mine. they have been a tremendous ally for half a...
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, the bush administration in any way in terms of the process? in terms of testimony questions? everything. >> the bush books and the first obama book i did were about wars when the commander in chief is dealing with his generals and his staff and his secretary of defense. so it's not as contentious. but this obama had to deal with a very dug-in republican majority in the house so it was a battle roy y'all. it was much more conteious. >> rose: you suggest the consequences were every bit as important as the crisis over the 2008 subprime crisis and the lehman brothers fall which led to the panic of september, 2008. >> in fact, it's an ongoing crisis because this is what happened last year and some this year. but it isn't over. the whole business about... people talk about budgets and debt ceiling and they think, oh, somehowhat'sor economists and journalists and people in congress and the white house but in fact, it affects everyone's life. if the federal government can't pay its bills-- and we're going to revisit this problem in about three or four
, the bush administration in any way in terms of the process? in terms of testimony questions? everything. >> the bush books and the first obama book i did were about wars when the commander in chief is dealing with his generals and his staff and his secretary of defense. so it's not as contentious. but this obama had to deal with a very dug-in republican majority in the house so it was a battle roy y'all. it was much more conteious. >> rose: you suggest the consequences were every...
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four years in as the obama administration -- has the obama administration achieved what you'd hoped for? >> four years in the obama administration has done a great job and they do have some unfinished business but when you look at doubling the vehicle efficiency in just four years, that's a remarkable achievement. taking the amount of mercury and arsenic and die i don't think serious bodily injurys and air toxics out of the atmosphere from coal-fired power plants, that's an amazing victory. when you add on top of that a rule that was just announced last month to limit the amount of soot coming from power plant facilities across the country, those are just three rules among dozens that have had a big impact on keeping our air clean, our water safe and starting to reduce greenhouse gas iio. a good record to build on. >> brown: kenneth green, what's your overview? >> i think when history looks back it won't give lisa jackson a particularly good record as e.p.a. administrator. when she came in she was overshadowed by carol browner who was the czar who gets the credit for the fuel economy st
four years in as the obama administration -- has the obama administration achieved what you'd hoped for? >> four years in the obama administration has done a great job and they do have some unfinished business but when you look at doubling the vehicle efficiency in just four years, that's a remarkable achievement. taking the amount of mercury and arsenic and die i don't think serious bodily injurys and air toxics out of the atmosphere from coal-fired power plants, that's an amazing...
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there's no action out of the obama administration. we were hoping it was going to happen earlier, it didn't happen and it seems now that the people -- the jihadists and salafists have the arms now including shoulder-fired antairaft systems and the secular forces that came out of the mainstream that we could deal with don't seem to have those weapons and the question is what is the obama administration going to do now? >> warner: tough decision. patrick tabler, thank you. >> my pleasure. >> suarez: still to come on the "newshour": political turmoil in egypt; arizona's new senator; a broad range of steps for a minnesota dance company and the college conference switches. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: democrats and republicans accused each other today of refusing to talk specifics about how to avoid the fiscal cliff. the two sides traded charges of bad faith as year-end tax hikes and spending cuts moved another day closer. on the face of it there seemed to be little movement today. >> no su
there's no action out of the obama administration. we were hoping it was going to happen earlier, it didn't happen and it seems now that the people -- the jihadists and salafists have the arms now including shoulder-fired antairaft systems and the secular forces that came out of the mainstream that we could deal with don't seem to have those weapons and the question is what is the obama administration going to do now? >> warner: tough decision. patrick tabler, thank you. >> my...
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. >> is the obama administration guilty of a cover-up in the benghazi attack? >> i think she knew better, and if she did no better, she should not be the voice of america. . >> for them to go after the u.n. ambassador, who had nothing to do with benghazi, and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence she had received, and to besmirch her reputation, is outrageous. >> they're talking about our u.n. ambassador, who could be the president's nominee to be secretary of state. this is about her appearance on talk shows on september 16 following the september 11 attacks in benghazi. charles krauthammer, our friend here, who is off this week -- i think he is in miami traveling -- has been hammering away at this for weeks but he said that it was fun cover story in the run-up to the election. what do we know about this? .> we don't know yet maybe the intelligence committees have some notion, but we really don't know yet. they are still conducting the investigation within the state department. it seems like there were 85 things going on at once. i am not clea
. >> is the obama administration guilty of a cover-up in the benghazi attack? >> i think she knew better, and if she did no better, she should not be the voice of america. . >> for them to go after the u.n. ambassador, who had nothing to do with benghazi, and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence she had received, and to besmirch her reputation, is outrageous. >> they're talking about our u.n. ambassador, who could be the president's nominee to be...
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yesterday secretary of state hillary clinton unveiled the obama administration's road map to increase access to treatment and eliminate new infriction-- infections in children by 2015. >> so as we continue to drive down the number of new infections and drive up the number of people on treatment, eventually we'll be able to treat more people than become infected every year. that will be the tipping point. we will then get ahead of the pandemic and an aids-free generation will be in our sight. >> it's been more than 30 years since the first known aids cases appeared in 1981. in the early years contracting aids was a near certain death sentence. >> there are few scarier things than the discovery of a new killer disease, one medical science admits is mostly a mystery for which there is no certain cause or cure. doctors have called the new one bizarre, frustrating, >> suarez: but wider access to drugs in recent years has changed the way people live with aids. deaths have dropped by 26% from their highest levels in 2005. new infection rates have fallen by 50% in more than two dozen countrie
yesterday secretary of state hillary clinton unveiled the obama administration's road map to increase access to treatment and eliminate new infriction-- infections in children by 2015. >> so as we continue to drive down the number of new infections and drive up the number of people on treatment, eventually we'll be able to treat more people than become infected every year. that will be the tipping point. we will then get ahead of the pandemic and an aids-free generation will be in our...
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. >> rose: where do you think the obama administration is in terms of the handling of this leadership of this nation over the last four years. because there are many people who supported the president enthusiastically la tim >> yeah. >> rose: they're prepared to look at an alternative if they find that alternative acceptable. >> well, here's where... >> rose: they may not find mitt romney or they may. >> i think it's a good question, charlie, and i was thinking about it last night with ann romney's speech. she was attractive, articulate. but i thought she missed... if i were writing her words as a republican i thought she missed really the key vulnerability of barack obama. i they is the biggest danger for barack obama is that a critical mass of swing voters say the following: barack obama, good guy, wonderful father, he's been great to have had the first african american president but just not up to it. it's a nice guy, don't blame him but i want to try something new. >> rose: right. >> ann romney had a killer line in her speech last night which she completely swallowed and the line
. >> rose: where do you think the obama administration is in terms of the handling of this leadership of this nation over the last four years. because there are many people who supported the president enthusiastically la tim >> yeah. >> rose: they're prepared to look at an alternative if they find that alternative acceptable. >> well, here's where... >> rose: they may not find mitt romney or they may. >> i think it's a good question, charlie, and i was...
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>> what we had in the first two years of the obama administration was a parliamentary system working in a sense where democrats without republican votes passed a major share of legislative accomplishments. >> woodruff: when the democrats were in charge. >> the democrats were in charge of everything. in a parliamentary culture everybody accepts the legitimacy of it. if it's not done in a broad bipartisan way half the country still believes it's legitimate. we've gone from a spate of accomplishments to no accomplishments at all. >> woodruff: talk about what's going on in reverse order. the transportation bill which we mentioned. as i understand it, there has not been a transportation bill passed by congress that's been funded except in a temporary manner for the last five years. what's going on there? >> reporter: you know, we simply have different party visions of what to do with transportation. that means infrastructure more broadly. how are we going to fund it? we fund it through a highway trust fund that is gasoline taxes. an unwillingness to raise those taxes, even to take into ac
>> what we had in the first two years of the obama administration was a parliamentary system working in a sense where democrats without republican votes passed a major share of legislative accomplishments. >> woodruff: when the democrats were in charge. >> the democrats were in charge of everything. in a parliamentary culture everybody accepts the legitimacy of it. if it's not done in a broad bipartisan way half the country still believes it's legitimate. we've gone from a...
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. >> suarez: now to the continuing fallout over the obama administration's recent decision on covering contraceptives. leaders in the catholic community are pushing back hard against a new mandate that requires coverage of those benefits uer the heah reform law. newshour health correspondent betty ann bowser reports on the battle lines from both sides. ♪ >> reporter: holy ghost catholic church in downtown done ver is a popular parish with a chief mission of serving the poor. yesterday the focus was not on charity. it was on a new federal regulation regarding health insurance. from the pulpit, father michael warren had strong words. >> the president of the united states who has recently made a decision to impose upon catholic institutions-- hospitals, schools, charities-- that they must provide for their employees coverage for contraception, coverage for sterilization, coverage for drugs that would induce abortion. without choice. this is in direct contradiction to our gospel values. >> reporter: when he finished his homily the congregation broke out in wild applause. ( applause ) and
. >> suarez: now to the continuing fallout over the obama administration's recent decision on covering contraceptives. leaders in the catholic community are pushing back hard against a new mandate that requires coverage of those benefits uer the heah reform law. newshour health correspondent betty ann bowser reports on the battle lines from both sides. ♪ >> reporter: holy ghost catholic church in downtown done ver is a popular parish with a chief mission of serving the poor....
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. >> brown: the remaking of the obama administration's foreign policy team began today as the president nominated massachusetts senator john kerry to replace hilary clinton as secretary of state. the former presidential candidate who lost to george w. bush in 2004 got the nod after u.n. ambassador susan rice withdrew her name. she'd faced republican criticisms over the benghazi terrorist attack. president obama made the announcement this afternoon at the white house. >> i am very proud to announce my choice for america's next secretary of state, john kerry. in a sense, john's entire life has prepared him for this role. having served with valor in vietnam, he understands that we have a responsibility to use american power wisely, especially our military power. and he knows, from persol experience, that when we send our troops into harm's way, we must give them the sound strategy, a clear mission, and the resources that they need to get the job done. in an extraordinarily distinguished senate career and as chairman of the foreign relations committee, john has played a central role in ever
. >> brown: the remaking of the obama administration's foreign policy team began today as the president nominated massachusetts senator john kerry to replace hilary clinton as secretary of state. the former presidential candidate who lost to george w. bush in 2004 got the nod after u.n. ambassador susan rice withdrew her name. she'd faced republican criticisms over the benghazi terrorist attack. president obama made the announcement this afternoon at the white house. >> i am very...
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. >> we will absolutely see a serious attempt at immigration reform coming from the obama administration for two reasons. one is, this issue just can't keep hanging out there. we've got 12 million americans. something's got to be done about it. it's got to be addressed. but the politics of this, as naftali said, if nothing else, politicns e o fo their own survivals. obama just got elected in no small part because hispanic voters turned out in record numbers and voted for him in record numbers. the inverse, the other side of that coin is true-- romney et al. looked at this election and say, my god, we're alienating a rising part of the electorate, we have to make right with them and there is common ground to be had on immigration. there's a grand bargain to be struck there. >> ifill: there's a grand bargain to be struck on little things. there may be agreement on the dream act. is there a grand bargain aptite for a larger overhaul? >> my hunch is that republicans, who can't keep losing hispanic voters the way they were they are, are going to be more conciliatory. harry reid said i can get
. >> we will absolutely see a serious attempt at immigration reform coming from the obama administration for two reasons. one is, this issue just can't keep hanging out there. we've got 12 million americans. something's got to be done about it. it's got to be addressed. but the politics of this, as naftali said, if nothing else, politicns e o fo their own survivals. obama just got elected in no small part because hispanic voters turned out in record numbers and voted for him in record...
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there are questions about whether, you know, whether the administration knew this was coming. white house officials insist that was not the case and that president obama was stunned when petraeus came to himnd made clear his intent to resign. >> suarez: how is the cia changed under his leadership? >> well, you know, at 14 months he has been there less time than all but a few other directors. and so i would say a couple things. i mean he has presided over a significant expansion of the drone campaign in yemin, broadening the cia's drone program beyond pakistan. at the same time he has a reputation for being cautious. somhave questioned whether he has been too reluctant to put agency op rattives in conflicts like syria, and he has also reportedly clashed with the head of the agency's counterterrorism center over petraeus deciding to tap the breaks a bit on the drone campaign in pakistan. >> suarez: professor mansoor you know general petraeus personally. worked side-by-side with him. what should we know about the man to help us understand what he's going through now? this must be
there are questions about whether, you know, whether the administration knew this was coming. white house officials insist that was not the case and that president obama was stunned when petraeus came to himnd made clear his intent to resign. >> suarez: how is the cia changed under his leadership? >> well, you know, at 14 months he has been there less time than all but a few other directors. and so i would say a couple things. i mean he has presided over a significant expansion of...
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administration would have been interested in, but that was i say dis missed several months ago. >> rose: i do do i hear your washington reporting suggesting that is one thing that was offered up and turned down? >> no, no, no. that is e sort of thing that i think you could ve done if you wanted to say hey, we haven't given up on governing we don't want to spend as mark said earlier 25 or 13 percent of our ti in office just running for reeltion. >> rose: makes sense to me you are nodding your head. >> no. i think -- i mean, his failure to embrace simpson bowls, my great disappointment in the president, actually, and he cod have stirred things up by coming out belatedly but as mark said it was a very safe speech. i mean, of course it is a political speech. every state of the union is a political speech. this is an election year and it was -- it was -- it was entirely safe and he didn't want to, i think, throw a long bombed and say -- and turn to speaker boehner and say yes, let's pass simpson bowls. .. clearly he wasn't about to do that. >> i mean, this is a speech, i think, where actuall
administration would have been interested in, but that was i say dis missed several months ago. >> rose: i do do i hear your washington reporting suggesting that is one thing that was offered up and turned down? >> no, no, no. that is e sort of thing that i think you could ve done if you wanted to say hey, we haven't given up on governing we don't want to spend as mark said earlier 25 or 13 percent of our ti in office just running for reeltion. >> rose: makes sense to me you...
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so if you want to pick a philosophical fight about the obama administration to the arab spring that would be fine, but this is some pseudoimage event. >> rose: they have made some arguments. they said he had an opportunity to come down on the side of the people in the street in tehran and didn't do it he had an opportunity to foreign policy, he shouldn't have set a date of deadline with respect to afghanistan. >> they made some of that. but i still think they continually are getting lost on trivialities. and they keep avoiding their core argument. and it's been a problem for the campaign. >> rose: was it a problem not to talk about foreign policy in the acceptance speech? >> no, i meanhisstill is an economy election. >> rose: but at the same time, this san acceptance speech, it's not like you are saying, he didn't spend enough time on the economy, just something to say you know we've got men and women at risk around the world reasons right. >> rose: our first concern has to be our national security and their safety. >> well, here, the problem with that speech and it ties into this, is a m
so if you want to pick a philosophical fight about the obama administration to the arab spring that would be fine, but this is some pseudoimage event. >> rose: they have made some arguments. they said he had an opportunity to come down on the side of the people in the street in tehran and didn't do it he had an opportunity to foreign policy, he shouldn't have set a date of deadline with respect to afghanistan. >> they made some of that. but i still think they continually are getting...
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the obama administration also has lifted some economic sanctions, allowing for american investment in myanmar. and, it is currently weighing lifting others, including the ban on imports from the southeast asian country. yesterday in washington, suu kyi urged a greater easing of u.s. sanctions >> i think that our people must start taking responsibility for their own destiny. i do not think we should depend on u.s. sanctions to keep up the momentum of our movement for democracy. >> warner: her visit also included a private meeting with president obama at the white house late today. next, she goes to new york to address the u.n. general assembly. >> warne today, thtreasury department eased some restrictions on the current government, removing myanmar's president from a list of individuals barred from doing business or owning property in the u.s. i'm joined now by maureen aung- thwin, who was just taken off the myanmar government's black list in the last few weeks. she's director of the burma project at the open society institute. and jennifer quigley advocacy director of the u.s. campaig
the obama administration also has lifted some economic sanctions, allowing for american investment in myanmar. and, it is currently weighing lifting others, including the ban on imports from the southeast asian country. yesterday in washington, suu kyi urged a greater easing of u.s. sanctions >> i think that our people must start taking responsibility for their own destiny. i do not think we should depend on u.s. sanctions to keep up the momentum of our movement for democracy. >>...
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. >> warner: and on the "daily download," we look at how the obama administration is re-using digital information gathered for the campaign to rally support now. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for pubc broadcaing. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: washington was a-whirl today with more talk of avoiding the much-discussed fiscal cliff. but as november wound down, the president suggested an agreement on taxes and spending could come in time for the holidays. >> i believe that both parties can agree on a frame work that does that in the coming weeks. in fact my hope is to get this done before christmas. >> you know me, i was born with the glass half full. i'm an optimist. >> brown: hopeful signs emanated from the white house and the capitol today, about getting a deal before the new year brings automatic tax hikes and spending cuts. presi
. >> warner: and on the "daily download," we look at how the obama administration is re-using digital information gathered for the campaign to rally support now. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for pubc broadcaing. and by contributions to your pbs station from...
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the obama administration has said rice was simply following unclassified talking points she'd been given. but today, committee chair ileana roslehtinen of florida said that defense raises a list of other questions. >> when did the inaccurate spontaneous protest narrative originate? where did it originate? and why was that story deemed more fit for publication than the accurate terrorism evidence? and if ambassador rice had little direct knowledge of the facts on the ground in benghazi why was she selected by the administration to be the spokesperson on this subject? >> reporter: deputy secretary burns answered with a defense of how the administration responded. >> what happened in benghazi on september 11th was clearly a terrorist attack. secretary clinton addressed that directly the following morning in her first public statement when she talked about an assault by heavily armed militants on our compound. later that same day president obama talked of an act of terror. i'm confident that the senior administration officials who spoke to this issue and the intelligence committee experts on
the obama administration has said rice was simply following unclassified talking points she'd been given. but today, committee chair ileana roslehtinen of florida said that defense raises a list of other questions. >> when did the inaccurate spontaneous protest narrative originate? where did it originate? and why was that story deemed more fit for publication than the accurate terrorism evidence? and if ambassador rice had little direct knowledge of the facts on the ground in benghazi why...
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the point republicans make which i do think is accurate and endemic to the obama administration she are asking him to offer a plan. and some is just a gimic to get him on record in smorted of some cuts. but in general i do think it's true if you are a president you do have to lead. you do have to have budget plans. and if you remember a couple years ago when obama let paul ryne go first, that was politically cagey, not presidential. i think in this case the white house is to be faulted for not at least showing the road map so some people have a sense of what is going to happen. >> woodruff: so the president does bear some of the responsibility. >> in defense of the president, he's not blameless in this. but this sequestration came directly from the failure of grand bargain. and between him and speaker boehner last summer and that this was -- >> the united states lost its credit rating as you will recall as a consequence of this, or potential shut down and so theresint was at that time according to best reporting or most reporting, ready to offer this grand bargain. the speaker was as we
the point republicans make which i do think is accurate and endemic to the obama administration she are asking him to offer a plan. and some is just a gimic to get him on record in smorted of some cuts. but in general i do think it's true if you are a president you do have to lead. you do have to have budget plans. and if you remember a couple years ago when obama let paul ryne go first, that was politically cagey, not presidential. i think in this case the white house is to be faulted for not...
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if barack obama gets four more years, it might be too late. we're not just spending borrowed money, we're living on borrowed time. look at the record of the outgoing administration. 23 million americans struggling for work. 42 months of unemployment above 8%. the worst jobs record since the great depression. it's time to elect mitt romney show we can get moving on the great america come back. [cheers and applause] now, the obama appall jitionz ie maybe stream media say it's not his fault. we have news for the media. we knew that things were bad, but that's no excuse for making things worse. four years ago, barack obama was an unproven leader. well today he's proven himself. he's proven that he's not up for the job. mitt romney and paul ryan will be up to the job on day one. [cheers and applause] like paul ryan, i'm from wisconsin, where republicans have done pretty well in recent years. well here's why. because we govern like we campaign. we made promises and we kept promises. that's what americans want. leaders of their word. well, president
if barack obama gets four more years, it might be too late. we're not just spending borrowed money, we're living on borrowed time. look at the record of the outgoing administration. 23 million americans struggling for work. 42 months of unemployment above 8%. the worst jobs record since the great depression. it's time to elect mitt romney show we can get moving on the great america come back. [cheers and applause] now, the obama appall jitionz ie maybe stream media say it's not his fault. we...
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she previously worked for the obama administration working on health care reform. and tevi troy is a senior fellow at the hudson institute. he served as mitt romney's healthcare policy adviser during the presidential campaign. and tevi troy, if we phase in a higher age for medicare eligibility, do you really save much money? >> yeah, over a ten-year period we're looking at $125 billion in savings. over a 75-year period we're looking at a trillion dollars off medicare's long-term liability. so this is real money. it makes a real difference. over 20 years 5% savings. look, the kohut argument is that people want cuts but they don't want to pay for the cuts. policymakers have to make choices about what the best cuts are. >> suarez: are there any countervailing costs we have to worry about? if you move the bar from 65 to 67 don't people arrive at the threshold after years of underinsurance or uninsurance sicker and thus more expensive than this would have been if they enter the program earlier? >> there are problems and there's not perfect and neera's study talks about
she previously worked for the obama administration working on health care reform. and tevi troy is a senior fellow at the hudson institute. he served as mitt romney's healthcare policy adviser during the presidential campaign. and tevi troy, if we phase in a higher age for medicare eligibility, do you really save much money? >> yeah, over a ten-year period we're looking at $125 billion in savings. over a 75-year period we're looking at a trillion dollars off medicare's long-term...
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i think this is a test for the president and the administration on how they handle it. that john bayne kerr come out of it not a diminished figure. but he's holding all the cards right now, barack obama. >> woodruff: you see the president having as many cards as mark? >> i think the president clearly has the upper hand. i think if we do go off the cliff and recession, i think the fiscal cliff is completely unpredic unpredict-- predictable, especially with a fragile economy, the wall street and the corporate economists are deeply scared about it. that recession really would, you know, wreck his term because we would be obsessed with that for the next couple of years. and so i don't think it's a total walk for him but he clearly has the upper hand. and then there is just the sheer fact of the numbers. say they reach a compromise. i think the republicans are likely to cave on the rate and you close a few deductions. >> do you think they will. >> i do. >> because they are saying they are not going to cave. >> there is going to be no deal on that. they are to the going to go
i think this is a test for the president and the administration on how they handle it. that john bayne kerr come out of it not a diminished figure. but he's holding all the cards right now, barack obama. >> woodruff: you see the president having as many cards as mark? >> i think the president clearly has the upper hand. i think if we do go off the cliff and recession, i think the fiscal cliff is completely unpredic unpredict-- predictable, especially with a fragile economy, the wall...
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captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: the obama administration has rejected the plan to build a controversial oil pipeline from canada to texas. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the "newshour" tonight, juliet eilperin of the "washington post" explains the reasons for the decision and what happens next. >> woodruff: we discuss the pressure on g.o.p. front-runner mitt romney to release his tax information in advance of the south carolina primary. >> warner: we debate the risk of sliding into war with iran, as the west tightens sanctions against its nuclear program. >> woodruff: spencer michels reports on how fog and tourism are threatening to destroy the historic murals in a san francisco landmark. >> the quality of art is amazing here. it's really indicative of the time period of the early '30s and for the public art, public mural movement of that time period. >> warner: and we debate the impact private equity firms have on jobs and the economy. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: the obama administration has rejected the plan to build a controversial oil pipeline from canada to texas. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the "newshour" tonight, juliet eilperin of the "washington post" explains the reasons for the decision and what happens next. >> woodruff: we discuss the pressure on g.o.p. front-runner mitt romney to release his tax...
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of new york, his eminence timothy dol who has locked horns with the obama administration in the past several months over birth control policy and insurance. >> woodruff: and also who also gave the benediction at the republican convention in tampa. so our photographers here in charlotte have been capturing dramatic moments in the hall and quiet candid moments off stage. you can browse our gallery of images and slide shows online. >> ifill: our dueling political cartoonists are back. we asked them to square off online and show us their interpretation of how the back-to-back conventions differ. reminder, watch all the speeches and entertainment on our live stream. all that and much more at newshour dot pbs.org. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: the democratic national convention geared up for its climactic night and president obama's acceptance speech. he told supporters that he looks forward to laying out what's at stake in the election. and stocks soared after the european central bank announced new plans to help heavily indebted states. the dow industrial average
of new york, his eminence timothy dol who has locked horns with the obama administration in the past several months over birth control policy and insurance. >> woodruff: and also who also gave the benediction at the republican convention in tampa. so our photographers here in charlotte have been capturing dramatic moments in the hall and quiet candid moments off stage. you can browse our gallery of images and slide shows online. >> ifill: our dueling political cartoonists are back....
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he tapped vice president biden to spear head the administration's effort. good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight: we look at the white house's stepped up response to the newtown elementary school shootings with illinois governor pat quinn among others. >> ifill: then, jeffrey brown examines a new report blaming the state department for systemic failures in security at the diplomatic mission in benghazi, libya, where four americans died. >> woruff: from damascus, i.t.n.'s alex thomson reports on the impact the rebel siege of the syrian capital is having on supporters of the assad regime. >> in this educational district and the one next door alone, in the past two weeks 35 small children and two teachers have been killed. >> ifill: we sit down with retiring connecticut senator joe lieberman, the democrat turned independent reflects on the tragedy in his home state and his 24 years in u.s. senate. >> there is reason for people to be angry skeptical and cynical about t willingss or capacity of congress to act
he tapped vice president biden to spear head the administration's effort. good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight: we look at the white house's stepped up response to the newtown elementary school shootings with illinois governor pat quinn among others. >> ifill: then, jeffrey brown examines a new report blaming the state department for systemic failures in security at the diplomatic mission in benghazi, libya, where four...
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obama said the administration will recognize a calition o syrian opposition groups. online, we look at a truly long- term reporting assignment. hari sreenivasan has more. >> sreenivasan: paul salopek is about to spend seven years tracing the ancient path of human migration around the globe. we talked about his route, the shoes he'll wear, and his emphasis on "slow journalism." and what's it like to have breast cancer in the poorest nation in the western hemisphere? that's next from our series with "pri's the world" on cancer in the developing world. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. ray? >> suarez: and that's the newshour for tonight. on wednesday, we'll look at the world in the year 2030. one intelligence report projects china will be on top economically, and the u.s. will be energy-independent. i'm ray suarez. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. and by the alfred p. oan foundation. supporti
obama said the administration will recognize a calition o syrian opposition groups. online, we look at a truly long- term reporting assignment. hari sreenivasan has more. >> sreenivasan: paul salopek is about to spend seven years tracing the ancient path of human migration around the globe. we talked about his route, the shoes he'll wear, and his emphasis on "slow journalism." and what's it like to have breast cancer in the poorest nation in the western hemisphere? that's next...
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administration most likely we have been hearing that romney and obama-care so closely tied. this plus the bain capital thrust tonight is this neutralize the line of attack from the obama administration? >> one thing that was struck by what david said why haven't we seen these stories on television? and this is now there are rumors they will announce they raised $100 million. they have the money to fund ads now. these are the types they are playing all the humanizing stories at every part of his record we are hear to go from olympians and bain folks and the massachusetts side of the personal stories. that is what they will put on the air. >> we have to remember the timing, going back to the back-to-back conventions that next week there's going to be three solid days of democrats beating up on mitt romney again and bringing up the other side of the record than what we are hearing tonight. >> this is the beginning of the biopic that we will see rolled out. how does the campaign deal with the idea that here is your opponent who is going to exhaust all of the media attention for
administration most likely we have been hearing that romney and obama-care so closely tied. this plus the bain capital thrust tonight is this neutralize the line of attack from the obama administration? >> one thing that was struck by what david said why haven't we seen these stories on television? and this is now there are rumors they will announce they raised $100 million. they have the money to fund ads now. these are the types they are playing all the humanizing stories at every part...
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president obama warned republicans not to try linking the fiscal cliff negotiations to an increase in the federal debt ceiling early next year. timothy geithner says the administration absolutely it prepared to let the economy go over the fiscal cliff unless the republicans accept higher tax rates on the healthy. and the southern philippines struggled to recover from a typhoon that killed nearly 300 people. and what does a day in the life of public buses, trains and subways look like? the answer is part of our science roundup online. hari sreenivasan has the details. >> sreenivasan: the image resembles a lite-bright time lapse. find those pictures and our conversation with a software developer who set out to visualize the 24-hour cycle of urban public transit systems. that's on our homepage. an international telecommunications conference in dubai aims to set new rules for the internet. what's at stake? we take a look in the rundown. and on making sense, economics correspondent paul solman argues both sides of the capital gains tax debate. all that and more is on our website newshour.p
president obama warned republicans not to try linking the fiscal cliff negotiations to an increase in the federal debt ceiling early next year. timothy geithner says the administration absolutely it prepared to let the economy go over the fiscal cliff unless the republicans accept higher tax rates on the healthy. and the southern philippines struggled to recover from a typhoon that killed nearly 300 people. and what does a day in the life of public buses, trains and subways look like? the...